Pwget is a simple GUI front end to the wget utility.
Wget is used for reliably downloading larger files from the internet such as ISOs.
The files are verified during the download procedure.
As ISO and other files are checked and downloads resumed,
they do not require a md5sum check.
Cut and paste the source file you wish to download.
Use the file selector to choose the destination

Development details
With thanks to Mark Ulrich and other developers
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25183http://

Basically this is a replacement/update for Ian's front end
which was written in tkl (No longer in Dingo)
Dingo has a downloader based on gcurl (very similar in operation)

Has been tested on 2.17 and Dingo Alpha
It should work on any Puppy with GTK3 (aprox Puppy 2.12 Puplets and above)_________________Puppy WIKILast edited by Lobster on Mon 21 Jan 2008, 15:17; edited 1 time in total

Lobster,
It may come across as nit-picky, but "copy-and-paste" is what you seem to intend; so please make Pwget use the appropriate term. "Cut-&-paste" is alarming, if one doesn't want to risk changing the source of the URL text.

This is a common misuse of "cut and paste", so I would not like to see it propagated in a Puppy dialog. Thanks for listening.
Richard

I was just going down through the menus here in 3.0.1 to see whether we had anything similar to that and we do, named "Xweget". So out of curiosity to see what the GUI looked like I started it up. UGH! I have to admit that I've never used these before, always being lazy and just clicking on the file in my browser.

Yet there have been so many times I'd have loved to have closed the browser and just walk off. Thanks for opening my eyes to another way to download where I can do just that.

And for the GUI behind yours? Nicer than Xweget's by far mate! Thanks for sharing!

I didn't realize you were doing this as I could have saved myself time & effort.
I've attached a later version of what I am working on, it has a Resume function but is not perfect yet, you might find it of interest.

Eyes-Only has mentioned Xweget in3.0.1 I think he means Xwget.
I didn't think the GUI was that bad considering it was created with tcl/TK.

PWget is used for reliably downloading larger files from the internet such as ISOs.
The files are verified during the download procedure.
As ISO and other files are checked and downloads resumed,
they do not require a md5sum check.

Am I to understand that by using this on my 56k dialup and http or ftp, I do not have to do any checking of md5's? Sounds great.

Yes Py - you are correct . . .
No only that, if your line breaks down during download
Set up again with the same parameters and location
and it will start off with inclusion of your previous download
- so you do not have to start from scratch

Never have to use md5sum unless downloading from browser . . ._________________Puppy WIKI

I don't think it uses md5sum which verifies that the file the programmer created, is the file you downloaded.
What it does do (from memory) is ensure the file that is downloaded is not corrupted or lost through line cut outs - partial downloads are still 'credited' and not corrupted.

So for tin-hats and the securely paranoid you could do a md5sum check too . . . _________________Puppy WIKI

I started working on the code
(you can find the original in user/local/pwget)
but really need help to get it working . . .
watch out for the test1 variable which I have no idea how to set and make use of
Help required

Yaaay! That's great guys, that was my example.
I don't have to do it from terminal anymore. Wait... actually I do, but it's still great! U see I never download the whole website, for example, if I want only pictures from some location or webpage, I do this:

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